Global Investment Outlook - Mar 2019

Should investors beware the ides of March? Or will temporary bouts of madness give way to pots of gold waiting for them at the end of the rainbow? The below list of papers attempts to make sense of the outlook for the global economy, beginning with The Economist Intelligence Unit's top 10 list of specific risks for 2019, including contagion in emerging markets, potential skirmishes in the South China Sea, cyber attacks, and other geopolitical pressure points.

Several global investment managers also present their monthly or quarterly outlooks on global investment strategy, spliced with their opinions on multi-asset tactical allocations.

In this report, eVestment tracks the movement of institutional assets (by investor type and domicile) across fixed income, equity, and multi-asset strategies. Their reporting database of long-only managers have a combined AUM of over USD 23 Trillion as of Q4 2018.

For compliance reasons, this paper is only accessible in the EMEA region

Manulife Asset Management describes the specific implications of the US-China trade war for farmland investors, including the need to potentially diversify their exposures to particular geographies, crop types, and global export markets.

For compliance reasons, this paper is only accessible in North America and South America

On April 1st, China joins the Bloomberg Barclays Global Agg. This paper presents a practical guide to the Chinese government bond market, including tax implications for investors and questions about trading.